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Focus Areas

Access to Care
RAND researchers skillfully analyze data to untangle health care outcomes from patient characteristics to document where disparities exist, and work to develop strategies to enhance access to health care practice, policy, and research.
Behavioral Health
Behavioral health policies are critically important to the overall health of large portions of the U.S. population. More than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness, and mental health and substance use disorders are often linked. RAND Health Care takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying behavioral health, both from a systems perspective and at the community level.
Benefits and Affordability
RAND Health Care has a long history of examining the design of health care benefits and its effect on the uptake of health care services, health outcomes, and costs. Our experts have developed and implemented a range of methods to evaluate the impact of federal and state efforts to improve benefit design.
Delivery Improvements
RAND Health Care researchers with backgrounds in medicine, statistics, and health policy disciplines, among others, explore a range of innovations to separate hype from promise while staying vigilant to detect unintended consequences.
Price Transparency
Over the last four decades, public and private sectors have experimented with payment approaches, motivating providers to deliver better care at lower cost. RAND Health Care leads the way in efforts to understand the links between physician payment, quality of care, and system cost.
Quality of Care
Despite spending more on health care than other countries, U.S. populations experience poorer health outcomes. RAND Health Care research explores multiple aspects of quality measurement, ways to help care be more patient-centered, and opportunities to improve patient safety.